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Email Adoption High But Lacking Best Practices

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A Forrester Research “ How US Maketers Use Email &# Report sheds some light into the use of email by B2B and B2C companies. Despite email’s prevalent use, interactive marketers still don’t do all they can to get the full value out of their email efforts – Sarah Glass, Forrester Research. Online Video.

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Are You Spending Enough on Online Marketing?

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Forrester Research has recently released a study, “ Benchmark Your Interactive Marketing Maturity “, that aims to give you some metrics to figure out whether you are putting your money on the right marketing tactics. It’s worth trying out: Forrester Benchmarking Tool. Five Benchmarks. Measure Yourself (Free!).

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

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the copywriter writes copy for the ad while the designer makes the ad look pretty), is now morphing into a free for all. So while adding another person to your marketing budget may seem tricky at first, maybe you don’t have to hire an additional person (although for larger organizations that should definitely be the case).

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A Primer on Sales Competitive Battle Cards

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If you don’t subscribe to Gartner, Forrester or other analyst organization then getting the reports is more difficult but not impossible as vendors mentioned in the report will showcase the document on their websites and allow people to download for free.

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Email Design Review Gallery « The Effective Marketer

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What I Don’t Like: The ‘download’ button with the Forrester logo on top and right next to the image looks a bit out-of-place, maybe it’s just me? Design #7 Email Sender: Omniture Email Title: A Recipe for Relevance What I Like: Clean, nice looking header containing image of the whitepaper and download button.

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Marketing Automation Catching On Fire

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I agree, more companies are adding marketing automation and marketing software in general to their budgets. @Jacques, you’re right, is a great time to be following the industry. So much happening and new opportunities for everyone. Greg, thanks! One data point concerns me. The Marketing Sherpa data is based on a sample of 300 CMOs.